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American Institute of Physics, APL Materials, 10(4), p. 104501

DOI: 10.1063/1.4954227

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Research Update: Oxide thermoelectrics: Beyond the conventional design rules

Journal article published in 2016 by Ichiro Terasaki ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Materials’ design for high-performance thermoelectric oxides is discussed. Since chemical stability at high temperature in air is a considerable advantage in oxides, we evaluate thermoelectric power factor in the high temperature limit. We show that highly disordered materials can be good thermoelectric materials at high temperatures, and the effects of strong correlation can further enhance the figure of merit by adding thermopower arising from the spin and orbital degrees of freedom. We also discuss the Kelvin formula as a promising expression for strongly correlated materials and show that the calculation based on the Kelvin formula can be directly compared with the cross-layer thermopower of layered materials.